Fortune's Favorite Child
Title | Fortune's Favorite Child PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Maurer |
Publisher | Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Pages | 434 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9781578065394 |
In this new biography, Maurer explores the troubled life of one of America's most prolific and idiosyncratic artists.
Fortune's Children
Title | Fortune's Children PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur T. Vanderbilt, II |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 601 |
Release | 2013-04-16 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0062288377 |
Vanderbilt: the very name signifies wealth. The family patriarch, "the Commodore," built up a fortune that made him the world's richest man by 1877. Yet, less than fifty years after the Commodore's death, one of his direct descendants died penniless, and no Vanderbilt was counted among the world's richest people. Fortune's Children tells the dramatic story of all the amazingly colorful spenders who dissipated such a vast inheritance.
Fortune's Daughter
Title | Fortune's Daughter PDF eBook |
Author | Alice Hoffman |
Publisher | Open Road Media |
Pages | 181 |
Release | 2014-09-23 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1497652421 |
An “intimate, lovely novel, most of whose concerns swirl about the pain and joys of motherhood,” from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Rules of Magic (People). Rae Perry has been in love with Jessup since high school. Two weeks before her eighteenth birthday, they ran away from Boston together and have been moving ever since—five states in seven years. Now they are in Southern California in what they call “earthquake weather,” a time when anything can happen, and Jessup is restless again. This time, Rae fears, he plans to leave without her. Lila Grey is a fortune-teller. More than a quarter century ago, on a cold and icy night in New York City, she gave birth to a daughter she never saw again. Lila is determined to find her lost child, even if it means an end to her happy life with Richard, the loving husband she refuses to let into her past. It is Lila who tells Rae she is pregnant—but the other symbol she reads in Rae’s tea leaves, she refuses to reveal. From that moment forward, their fates are inextricably linked. While Rae searches for the strength to navigate an uncertain future alone, Lila sets out to resolve her history once and for all. This luminous novel, a New York Times Notable Book, is an enthralling tribute to the profound mysteries of motherhood and childbirth from a writer who, in the words of Amy Tan, “takes seemingly ordinary lives and lets us see and feel extraordinary things.”
Child of Fortune
Title | Child of Fortune PDF eBook |
Author | Norman Spinrad |
Publisher | Gateway |
Pages | 401 |
Release | 2013-10-31 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0575117265 |
In the exotic interstellar civilization of the Second Starfaring Age, youthful wanderers are known as Children of Fortune. This is the tale of one such wanderer, who seeks her destiny on an odyssey of self-discovery amid humanity's many worlds.
Child of Fortune
Title | Child of Fortune PDF eBook |
Author | Yuko Tsushima |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Pages | 185 |
Release | 2018-08-02 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0241335043 |
'A terrific novel' Angela Carter Koko won't do what is expected of her. Defying her family's wishes, she has brought up her eleven-year-old daughter alone in her apartment. And now, after a casual affair, she is unexpectedly pregnant again. What will this mean for her already troubled relationship with her daughter? As she faces the future, memories of her own childhood loss flood into her consciousness, threatening to overwhelm her. Combining the beauty and unease of a dream, this haunting novel is an unflinching portrayal of a woman's innermost fears and desires. 'As relevant today as when it was published ... at once powerfully uplifting and achingly sad' Japan Times
Fortune's Child
Title | Fortune's Child PDF eBook |
Author | James Conroyd Martin |
Publisher | |
Pages | 398 |
Release | 2019-10-22 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781734004304 |
Theodora: actress, prostitute, mistress. And Byzantine Empress of the civilized world. Stephen: handsome Syrian boy, wizard's apprentice, palace eunuch. And Secretary to the Empress. How does this unlikely pair become such allies that one day Empress Theodora asks Stephen to write her biography? From a very young age, Theodora, daughter of a circus bearkeeper in Constantinople, sets her sights well above her station in life. Her exquisite beauty sets her apart on stages and in the eyes of men. Stephen, a Syrian lad of striking good looks, is sold by his parents to a Persian wizard, who teaches him a skill in languages that will serve him well. By the time Destiny brings them together in Antioch, Theodora has undergone heartrending trials and a transformation, while Stephen has been sold again . . . and castrated. Discover the enduring bond that, however imperfect, prompts Theodora--as Empress--to request palace eunuch Stephen to write her biography.
Fortune's Favourite Child Pbp
Title | Fortune's Favourite Child Pbp PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret James |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1994-03-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780751511499 |